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Junk Mail Derby: Update 2

It’s been a busy two weeks since our last venture to the mailbox, and it ain’t getting any prettier. Some new candidate mailers, some ballot initiative screeds, and more dead trees. Spin, Founding Fathers, spin!

I’m redoing my measurements: from now one, I’m counting who’s spending the money. Which means a candidate may be on a mailer, but unless it’s stated he’s spending the bread, it won’t go in his tally.Bob Holbrook, City Council: three solo mailersGleam Davis, City Council: two solo mailers, one paid slate mailerPam O’Connor, City Council: one solo mailer, one paid slate mailerKevin McKeown, City Council: two solo mailers, one paid slate mailerTom Donner, SMC Board of Trustees: one solo mailer (by the way, Tom: I had to Google your campaign site. Whoever’s doing your marketing sucks.)Oscar de la Torre, School Board: one solo mailer, one paid slate mailerNancy Greenstein, Louise Jaffe, Andrew Walzer, David Finkel, SMC Board of Trustees: two paid slate mailers. (I’m lumping them together ’cause that’s how they appeared on the mailers. Please, people, continue to be cheap and work together. I don’t want to make a Ruby on Rails app just to keep track of you.) Also, special note about Andrew Walzer: he’s the only candidate I’ve met face-to-face; anyone who can campaign at the Farmers’ Market on a Saturday and stay in the race deserves some kind of notice. Plus, he wants to bring the manual arts back to SMC.